Deputy finance minister David Masondo has been accused of using his influence to have an alleged former lover of his arrested, investigative news outfit amaBhungane has reported. 

This follows a sting operation by the Hawks in August in which it arrested a woman after a complaint by the deputy minister that she wanted a R300,000 payoff from him or else she would reveal certain information. ..

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